Originally Posted by Molitoth:
For those of us that watched the shit out of him at WV... (me, you, SNR, tismaqe, etc) we all saw his potential.
I knew his career was sabotaged the minute he got drafted to the Jets.
Andy Reid and a good environment would have surely had him a respectable career imo. I'm glad he is getting another opportunity.
A crucial piece I kept bringing up that people scowled at me for was the actual value of the 2013 #1 overall pick.
I think it was the Lions that traded up to #3 that year to draft Ziggy Ansah? Or something like that? And they only coughed up a single 2nd or something like that? Fucking ridiculous. We tried to trade out of that pick, and I'm sure that was probably about the best we could do as well.
Well, if the #1 overall pick is THAT damn worthless, then you really have to ask yourself the question what you'd rather have: that #1 overall draft pick to take an OT that at the time was a bit of a project? Or your 2nd rounder from said worthless draft plus a 2nd rounder from a much better and deeper draft class?
Again, where it falls apart is claiming that Geno and Alex are equals. Even now after the fact and with my homer vision on, I'm not willing to say an Andy-coached Geno would have been as good as Alex. But I argue he would have been good enough, certainly.
So I'm looking back now and thinking... I mean, at the time, I don't know. I might want to take Geno, keep Branden Albert past his tag year, and get two 2nds back that we traded away. Because that's the other side of the equation-- we all look back fondly at the Eric Fisher days when he was with us, but god damn he was injury-prone and just flippin BAD his first two years and for part of 2015, too. Remember when we were starting Stephenson over him at LT to start 2014? At least as 2014 and possibly even 2015 are concerned, I think I'd rather have Albert in there. [Reply]